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Should Congress Increase FDIC Insurance Limits?

South State Correspondent

In the wake of regional bank failures, one potential answer to equity shorting and bank runs is having the FDIC increase deposit insurance. The regulators are considering three options: raising the limit above $250k, raising the cap for only certain accounts (such as banks’ business accounts), or eliminating the cap entirely.

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FDIC Approves Square For Banking License

PYMNTS

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation ( FDIC ) gave the green light to an application from the FinTech firm Square to create a de novo industrial bank in Utah, the agency said on Wednesday (March 18). was formed in 2009 as a payment services provider to enable businesses to accept card payments. Square, Inc.

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Impact of Covid-19 Felt in the Shared National Credit Reviews Released by Bank Regulators

Perficient

.” SNC (pronounced like the candy bar but without the “ers”) stands for the Shared National Credit Program, which, since 1977, has assessed risk in the largest and most complex credits shared by multiple regulated financial institutions. Loan reviews are completed in the first and third calendar quarters each year.

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There Are Fewer Unbanked Americans, According To The FDIC

PYMNTS

With increasingly few exceptions, the ranks of the unbanked seem to be on the decline, according to new data released by the FDIC. According to FDIC data, unbanked American consumers peaked toward the end of the Great Recession in 2011 at 8.2 The percentage of Americans going without banking services fell to 7 percent in 2015 from 7.7

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Freedom Bank in Montana Released from FDIC Consent Order

American Banker

has been released from a consent order that the FDIC and the Montana Division of Banking and Financial Institutions had implemented in December 2009. Freedom Bank in Columbia Falls, Mont.,

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A Whale of a Tale: Enloe State Bank

Jeff For Banks

She hid them from the Board and regulators with assistance from unnamed co-conspirators." When the TDB shut them down and the FDIC investigators came in, they had to occupy the church next door because of the smell from the fire. The FDIC issued this guidance in June 2011. Well, not actually Pat.

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Get your ducks in a row: HVCRE risk management

Abrigo

Ashbaugh’s presentation begins with a quick summary of why regulators care about HVCRE. Ashbaugh goes on to demonstrate that the default rates for these loans did not peak until about 2009, and the ALLL did not increase until 2010. That 13% represented 80% of the losses to the FDIC insurance fund. How did we get here?